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• ISBN: 1555915558 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 9781555915551
• Physical Description: xii, 284 pages ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2005.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Children of dreamers: from Ordinary wolves / Seth Kantner -- 1972: Moving to Alaska to open a meat shop / Arlitia Jones -- Snobs / Jean Anderson -- Fire / Linda Schandelmeier -- from Road song / Natalie Kusz -- from Correcting the landscape / Marjorie Kowalski Cole -- from Johnny's girl / Kim Rich -- Taking risks, confronting consequences: from Man made cold by the universe / Sherry Simpson -- Quitter / Robert Service -- from Coming into the country / John McPhee -- from Old Yukon / James Wickersham -- Sign on a cabin in the caribou hills / Arlitia Jones -- from Tracks of the unseen / Nick Jans -- from Rowing to latitude / Jill Fredston -- from Wager with the wind: Don Sheldon story / James Greiner -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Transformations: Man who swam with beavers / Nancy Lord -- Man who spent the winter with bears / Jennie Masruana Jackson -- Fairy tale / Sheila Nickerson -- Qadanalchen's song / Peter Kalifornsky -- from Peter Kalifornsky's dream /Alan S. Boraas -- Entering the surroundings / Ann Fox Chandonnet -- Grandpa Jakwteen in eclipse / Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- What whales and infants know / Kimberley Cornwall -- Rowing toward the spirit world / Tom Sexton -- Naming and unnaming: from Alaska wilderness / Robert Marshall -- Grandmama's visit / June McGlashan Dirks -- from Place of the pretend people: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo village / Carolyn Kremers -- Not to talk bad of the weather / Jerah Chadwick -- from Stars, the snow, the fire / John Haines -- Cross talk / Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- There is no word for goodbye / Mary TallMountain -- What to bring for the next century / Joseph Enzweiler -- Finding self and spirit: Homestead / John Haines -- from Travels in Alaska / John Muir -- Braided river / Peggy Shumaker -- Why subsistence is a matter of cultural survival: Yup'ik point of view / John Active -- December: for spirit / John Morgan -- from Bamboo fly rod suite: reflections on fishing and the geography of grace / Frank Soos -- Feminine and masculine unbound: Nawalaskam agagaa: Woman of Ounalashka / Jerah Chadwick -- from Working on the edge: surviving in the world's most dangerous profession: King crab fishing on Alaska's high seas / Spike Walker -- Harry / Phoebe Newman -- from Raising ourselves / Velma Wallis --

Love song / Semyon Pan'kov -- from Shadows on the Koyukuk / Sidney Huntington -- from Cold day for murder / Dana Stabenow -- Alaska as a parable for the future: from Firecracker boys / Dan O'Neill -- from Whale and the supercomputer / Charles Wohlforth -- from Moonlight at midday / Sally Carrighar -- from Shadow of the hunter / Richard K. Nelson -- Last wolf / Mary TallMountain -- from Two in the far North / Margaret E. Murie -- from tales of Alaska's bush rat governor: Extraordinary autobiography of Jay Hammond, wilderness guide and reluctant politician / Jay Hammond -- Requiem for the Arctic refuge / John Haines -- Next chapter / Howard Weaver -- For the sake of the light / Tom Sexton -- Contributors -- Permissions.

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American literature > Alaska.
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